what do you mean by a supreme? as in supreme being(god) supreme court or something elseQitz said:
fun fact Halo CE actully has a health system
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...And as such, 'banana trees' don't technically exist; they're actually shrubs.Meatramen said:
Also, horses are more susceptible to stomach issues because they're physiologically unable to vomit.
I'm not saying that there were any good reason why Britain should have retained the colonies, I'm just saying that the reasons that were given as to why the revolution was justified were rather shaky. The main reason was because of Taxes. Of course, what many people gloss over is the fact that these taxes were really meant to pay off the debt incurred fighting the French Indian War, which was fought to keep the colonialists safe from the attack French and their Indian allies. Prior to this, the colonies had been taxed fairly little, and to me, the idea that the colonist had to help pay off the debts caused by the British army keeping them safe, seems logical. Of course then people bring up the no taxation without representation thing, which to me seems foolish because logistically it is entirely impractical for the colonists to send their representatives to London because of how far removed they would be from the actual colonies, it would be like having a person who lived in Britain representing you.Treblaine said:
Yes geographically it makes sense that the colonies would have split from Britain eventually, however, I think that the reason's that were given for the rebellion weren't severe enough to warrant a somewhat long and bloody war.
In Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, the Reliance was supposed to have a similar design to the Enterprise, but the model builder looked at the plans upside down, hence the iconic design which appears in the film.
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This guy? Really? Samm Levine as Barney Stinson?
Footballs (soccer balls) are truncated icosahedron, not actual balls. Pringles are hyperbolic paraboloids. There are my bread and butter facts for this thread. The HIMYM thing is the meat.
Despite what Sega has lead you to believe, hedgehogs can actually swim for small periods of time. When the creators of Sonic the Hedgehog were asked about this fact, they insisted they were unaware of this feat, and designed Sonic to be slow and vulnerable underwater.
The pentagram has nothing to do with satanism. It was initially a pagan symbol (the first known usage being in Mesopotamia around 3000BCE) The Sumerian pentagrams served as pictograms for the word "UB" meaning "corner, angle, nook; a small room, cavity, hole; pitfall." In René Labat's index system of Sumerian hieroglyphs/pictograms it is shown with two points up. In the Babylonian context, the edges of the pentagram were probably orientations: forward, backward, left, right, and "above". These directions also had an astrological meaning, representing the five planets Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Saturn, and Venus.
The image of the Devil that many people have (Horns, goatee, goat legs, pitchfork) is actually not mentioned in the bible at all. At some point, people decided to take some things that seemed evil at the time and throw them on him like a kid playing dress-up. His pitchfork is actually a trident, a popular accessory of the Greek god Poseidon (or Neptune as he was called in Rome). The horns were most likely taken from all those animal worshiping religions the church hated. The goat legs were added as late as the 19th century when neo-paganism became popular. Many artists and writers used the Greek god of goats, herds and fertility, Pan, as inspiration. Needless to say this upset a lot of christians.
The image of the Devil that many people have (Horns, goatee, goat legs, pitchfork) is actually not mentioned in the bible at all. At some point, people decided to take some things that seemed evil at the time and throw them on him like a kid playing dress-up. His pitchfork is actually a trident, a popular accessory of the Greek god Poseidon (or Neptune as he was called in Rome). The horns were most likely taken from all those animal worshiping religions the church hated. The goat legs were added as late as the 19th century when neo-paganism became popular. Many artists and writers used the Greek god of goats, herds and fertility, Pan, as inspiration. Needless to say this upset a lot of christians.
I'm really, really hoping you're just having a laugh DJ...how, in any way, shape or form, is that discriminatory against Mexicans? For the love of god grow the hell up.DJ_DEnM said:
EDIT: Venus' day is longer than its year o.o
